Solitude
To sit on rocks, to muse o’er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest’s shady scene, Where things that […]
To sit on rocks, to muse o’er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest’s shady scene, Where things that […]
There be none of Beauty’s daughters With a magic like Thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet […]
The Moorish King rides up and down, Through Granada’s royal town; From Elvira’s gate to those Of Bivarambla on he […]
LARA. [1] CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara’s wide domain, [2] And slavery half forgets her […]
It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale’s high note is heard; It is the hour when lover’s […]
Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious Queen of childish joys, Who lead’st along, in airy dance, Thy votive train of […]
“Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne’er […]
Whene’er I view those lips of thine, Their hue invites my fervent kiss; Yet, I forego that bliss divine, Alas! […]
When Friendship or Love Our sympathies move; When Truth, in a glance, should appear, The lips may beguile, With a […]
Thou whose spell can raise the dead, Bid the prophet’s form appear. “Samuel, raise thy buried head! “King, behold the […]
I Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep […]
Why, Pigot, complain of this damsel’s disdain, Why thus in despair do you fret? For months you may try, yet, […]
Adieu, adieu! my native shore Fades o’ver the waters blue; The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, And shrieks the wild […]
‘Twas after dread Pultowa’s day, When fortune left the royal Swede – Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to […]
When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years, Pale grew thy cheek and cold, […]